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...WM: Jazz has permeated everything in America in the 20th century, in terms of the elevation of individual expression, and the service of the individual expression to a group experience. Movies are always based on that. There's an irreverence for material, but a reverence for quick wits and thinking. There is the whole question of the sophisticated country boy. Abraham Lincoln was an example. This guy off of a farm somewhere delivered the Gettysburg Address. These archetypes exist in our way of looking at things. Jazz is about a process of putting things together. There's no right...
...WM: Duke Ellington was denied so much more than that. By the time they got around to considering him for the Pulitzer Prize, he was 60-something years...
...WM: And he did get it heard. That's the bottom line. He played it. He didn't stay at home bitching about it. He went out there and played...
...WM: The greatest artists are always those that are many men thick. That's a constant in the world of art. We're in a renaissance. The greatest musicians I know accept the whole history of music. Marcus Roberts, who I named before, pianist Cyrus Chestnut, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, these are artists who deal with all of the music. They're not being addressed properly, but they're here. The archaic thought that abstraction is the only way to be modern, I don't know who still believes in that. Also, the idea that one period of something defines...
...WM: That's what it always is in life, whether it's with your kids, wife, girlfriend, mother...it's always an issue of what's underneath the surface, what's more internal. Go in, then you can go out. If you don't go in deep enough, you can't come...